Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-07-15
State 11emS.

John Q. Adams, aged G3, was killed at
Chester by being thrown from load of
hay in the field Friday afternoon.
At Bellows Falls an ice team ran away.
throwing the driver, John Roy, under
the team and iniuring him perhaps IA
tally.
The rains in the section about Rich
mond the first two days of this week
have averted "A drought that threatened
great damage to the crops.
Charles. the only son of Warner Church
of Chester, committed suicide the other
day by shooting himself through the
head with a revolver.
Mrs. Bronson,13, while crazed by opium
attempted to commit suicide at Bellows
Falls, Friday night, by cutting her throat.
She inflicted only slight CASH
Work has been pushed rapidly of late
on the Memorial hall at Rutland. The
els are now ready for the roof. and the
main part of the building is nearly
ready.
Col. Hooker in his address at the dedi-
cation of the soldiers monument at Brat
tleboro said that the first Vermont soldier
killed in the rebellion was Benz. W. Rus
sci of Brattlcboro.
Lambert Hastings died in ST. Johns
bury last week. aged eighty years. He
was in early life engaged in the cattle
business. For fifty years he drove cattle
to Brighton and Cambridge markets.
The soldiers Home in Bennington will
be formally dedicated August II or .. \
meeting of the trustees will be held on
that day at which will come up for con-
sideration the erection of an additional
building.
Between East Concord and Miles
Pond, the other day, lightning took a
trip along the telegraph-wire. and as a
result thirty-seven telegraph-poles were
thrown down, many being split into
kindling-wOod.
\ party of Charlotte people claim that
they saw the Lake Champain sea serpent
while holding picnic on the lake shore.
1t was within several hundred feet of the
shore, and its head and a portion of its
body are said to have been visible.
4 large scale of marble fell from the
top of the side of ellison & Woodfn's
quarry at West Rutland Saturday morn
ing. instantly killing Patrick Mccoy
and seriously injuring a man named
Breen. Others narrowly escaped being
killed.
The most terrific thunderstorm of the
season prevailed in st. Adams the 9th.
| The streets were flooded and the water
set back from the sewers, deluging the
cellars to considerable extent. Rain
fell in torrents for three-quarters of an
hour.
Ten thousand cups of coffee were con-
sumed at the recent reunion of veterans
at Fair Haven, with five bushels of dough-
nuts, a barrel of bareback, "A whole
cheese and biscuits and butter by the
cart-load. Twenty-Five hundred people
were fed during the day.
Howard ellison fell from the top of the
Champion evaporator cOmpany's build
ing at Richford, Saturday, dropped II
feet, struck on the roof of a lumber shed,
slid over the caves, and fell IL feet into
the Missisquoi river, where the water is
but Is inches deep, and escaped without
injury.
The annual meeting of the American
Pathological association opened at Bur
lington Tuesday and closes today.
During the season papers were read by
Cyrus Alder of Johns Hopkins UNIVERSE
ty, Prof w. F. Allen of the university of
Wisconsin, Prof. Greenough of Harvard,
Prof March of Lafayette, Prof Hale OF
Cornell, and others.
During terrific thunder storm which
visited Fairfield Thursday afternoon,
Francis Ryan's large barn was struck by
lightning and totally destroyed, together
with 80 tons of hay, 100 bushels of grain,
a moving machine, buggy, harrow
two sleighs, an OK cart, and one cali
The loss is $1,000; insurance, $1,000, in the
Vermont Mutual. James Fairs corn barn
in the same town was also struck by
lightning and demolished. Two cows
belonging to a Mrs. Cox were killed.
The Unversalists will hold their third
annual series of grove meetings at Bur
lington August 9-l4. Among those who
will address the meetings are Rev. DR.